Lighting fixture



C. S. THOMAS.

' LIGHTING FIXTURE. APPLICATION FILED AUG-28,1920- Patented. Apr. 18, 1922..

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I UNH'ED STATE-S PATENT orrics.

'cmrronnsi THOMAS, or GQRHAMQMAINE.

LIGHTING FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr; 18, 19 22- Apphcation-filec l A iisms, 1920. SeriaiNo. 406,569. f

To all whomit may concern: V

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD S...T HOi\I AS, a citizen of the United States.-res1d ng.at

Gorham, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lighting Fix-' tures, of which the following is a SPBClflCil-r I tion.

My invention relates to lighting fixtures and is'especially applicable to lighting fixtures upon articles of furniture designed to illuminate a mirror thereon, although my invention is not confined thereto lout is useful I Another object of my inventionis to produce such a fixture and of such a structure that. it can readily-be attached for permm I nent use to the-article to beillummated or detached at will. Q 1 g Other objects of myinvention will appear from a detaileddescription thereof later to In the illustrative embodiment of my invention hereinafter referred to, have'selected the article of furniture-known as a dressing table, having a centrally disposed mirror thereon as the article to which my invention in lighting fixtures is applied. This is to be understood, however, as illustrative of but one of its uses.

, While my invention is capable of embodiment in many different forms, for the purposes of illustration I have shown only one form of the same in the accompanying draw.- ings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of the dressing table, includingthe top, side arms and mirror, and with a pair of my lighting fixtures attached;

Fig. 2 is a rear'elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of my lighting fixtures unattached; L

Fig. at is an end elevation of the jointed attaching plate with a portion of the lampsupporting arm securedthereto.

The dressing table shown is of the usual type. comprising a table top 1 with side arms 2 arising therefrom to support a mirror 3 manner.

" My improved lighting. fixture comprises a bracket having, in the illustrative embodiment, a flat, vjointed attaching plate come prising supporting arms 5 and 6 hinged to.

getheras arise as to provide an attaching .therebetween upon pivot pins sin the usual i and supporting plate made up of two parts adjustable toany desired angle relative to one another. The hinge shownin the illusfound in carpenters. rules, comprising a groove in the end ofone of the articulating members and a tongue in the otherwith a hinge pin inserted through the articulating vparts so as to provide fiushf'surfaces across the two arms.

" Screw holes are providedin the. arms referred to through which screws are inserted.

as indicatedlat 8,1 for the attachment 'of'the supporting plate to the rear side of the arm or standard of the mirror. v

The attaching plate after adjustment and attachment, as-findicatedto the rear of- -th'e mirror armor standard, is designed for the support of thelzirfip-beziring arm, which arin comprises a part att a chedto the attachingor supporting plate,.a portion curved there; from to clear the mirror arm and extending vertical subtended bythe'mirror standard.

and to the rear flat surface of the lowerv arm of the attaching plate, as shown in Fig. 2, is

securedin any desired manner, as by soldering or welding, an elbow piece 9. Thiselbow piece 9, in the illustrative embodiment of of a pipe of the size and kind customarily used in conveying illuminating gas in:

houses for domestic lighting and having screw-threaded ends or nipples.

. the invention, is formed of an elbowsection A second I elbow piece 10 of like character screw threaded to the 'first-mentioned elbow piece provides the outwardly curvedportion'clear- Y Y 1 ing' the side arm of the mirror. Into (the forwardly extending end of this elbow piece 10, as shown in Fig.1, is screw-threaded a short section of gas pipe. 11, which section of pipe 11 extends in a horizontal plane to a pointin advance of the front surface of the 65, trative embodiment is "of the usual type to-the front of the'dressing table and a'te'r- $5 the upwardly extending nipple of the elbow section 12 and held firmly in place by a nut Where electric lamps are used the wires for the lamp sockets may be threaded through the hollow pipe sections, and the wires '16 are so shown in the illustrative embodiment.

Where it is desired to use illuminating gas,'the hollow pipe sections function in the customary manner as gas conveyors, and the electric lamp bulbs and sockets are replaced by the usual gas bracket, including the gas jet, screw-threaded into the terminal section of the gas pipe as is customary.

From the structure described, it is obvious that my lighting fixture can be applied to articles of various conformations. For example, where the fixture is to be applied to dressing tables, as in the illustrative application, and where, as is well known, the mirror supporting arms of difi'erent designs of dressing tables'vary in the anglethey make with the vertical, the hinged arms 5 and 6 can be adjusted to the angle corresponding to that subtended by the arms of the particular dressing table to which the fixture is to be applied, and thereafterithe supporting plate, comprising the arms 5 and 6, screwed into place. It is also apparent that the fixture can be asreadily'removed when desired.

While I have described my invention above in detail, I wishit to be understood that many changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the same.

fixture having an attaching plate comprised of a plurality of parts adjustable to varying angles relative to one another and a lamp supporting portion extending rigidly from one face of said plate in a plane parallel to said plate and beyond an edge thereof and thereafter at an angle to the plane of said plate to a point beyond the opposite face thereof.

2. As an article of manufacture, a lighting fixture having an attaching plate comprised of a plurality'of parts adjustable to varying angles relative to one another and an arm rigidly secured to one of said parts on one face of said plate and having a terminal portion for the support of a lamp or other source of illuminationparallel with said part and beyond the plane of the opposite face of said plate.

able to varying anglesone with another and a'hollow arm secured at one end to one face of said attaching plate and having an angular offset portion clearing an edge of said attaching plate and a lamp-bearing terminal extending beyond the'opposite face of said attaching plate.

4. As an articleof manufacture, a lighting fixture having an attaching plate comprised of a plurality of parts adjustable to varying angles relative to one another in the plane of said plate and a lamp-supporting portion extending rigidly from one face of saidplate and thereaftertransversely to the plane 7 of said plate to a point beyond the plane of the opposite face of said plate.

In "testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of August, 1920.

CLIFFORD S. THOMAS. 

